E-waste recycler EWaste Africa has partnered with Pick n Pay and producer responsibility scheme ERA NPC to build a nationwide network of e-waste collection points in retail stores, in a bid to lift South Africa’s stubbornly low electronics recycling rates. More than 95 drop-off points are already in place, with a target of more than…
South Africa’s Bafana Bafana face hosts Mexico tonight in the opening match of the FIFA World Cup. (Image source: FIFA) As South Africa’s Bafana Bafana face hosts Mexico tonight in the opening match of the FIFA World Cup, tournament organisers have deployed a suite of advanced technologies aimed at improving officiating accuracy and enhancing the…
South African businesses are rolling out AI voice agents at speed. Most of those agents were built in the US. They sound American, “think” in English and process calls through servers on the other side of the world. Researchers at the University of Cape Town say the problem goes deeper than anyone selling a product…
Africa’s rural communities face the largest disparities, with mobile internet gender gaps significantly wider outside urban centres. (Image created using ChatGPT) More than 810 million women across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remain offline, with Sub-Saharan Africa recording one of the world’s widest mobile internet gender gaps. According to the GSM Association’s (GSMA’s) Mobile Gender…
Charles Molapisi MTN Group is targeting R30-billion in “value creation” from AI over the next three to five years, with roughly half expected to come from using AI to run the business more cheaply and the balance split between consumer and business applications. Setting out the plan at the group’s capital markets day on Wednesday,…
When South Africa’s government suddenly withdrew its newly gazetted national AI policy framework, the document itself was flagged with fictitious sources. Ironically, these sources were likely hallucinated by the very technology the policy sought to govern. This was a very uncomfortable AI moment for us, but also a teaching one. This isn’t just a case…
A number of workloads moved to the cloud years ago, but the security thinking needed to protect them is still catching up. According to Red Hat’s ‘The State of Cloud-Native Security 2026’ report, 97% of organisations had at least one cloud-native security incident in the past year, and 74% slowed or delayed application deployments because…
At war … Dario Amodei and Sam Altman If not for the intense rivalry between Anthropic and OpenAI, the generative AI boom might not have arrived so quickly. In late 2022, OpenAI caught wind that Anthropic was working on an AI-powered chatbot. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman immediately directed employees to fast-track a competing product, four…
Through a strategic partnership with the University of Johannesburg’s Business School, FNB’s App Academy 2026 will enable student access to a university-backed, accredited learning experience that combines practical app development, entrepreneurship thinking, innovation leadership and future-focused digital skills development. Supplied image An open and free platform for participants across the continent, the FNB App Academy…
Subverted’s captivating stand at the IT Web Security Summit 2026 event held at Sandton Convention Center. Local cyber security company Subverted used its sponsor and exhibitor presence at ITWeb Security Summit 2026 in Johannesburg to announce Proactive, a unified offensive security platform now in private beta, alongside new releases inside Subverted Academy – the company’s…
